A Weather Window

Several websites, including NOAA Maritime Weather, are starting to show a pause in the weather action as an expected front is delayed into the later half of next week leaving seas as low as 1-2 feet out 60 miles into the Gulf on Monday night. If things still look this good Saturday night, we will complete our clothing and food loadout and get underway Sunday morning for Dog Island or Carrabelle, which is just four miles up the river.

This will be a 90-mile run for the boat and a good shakedown after a lot of sitting around this winter. If we had been running the boat a lot recently, I'd simply exit the St Andrew Bay jetties here and just head for Anclote Key, but prudence dictates a long hard day for the engines and running gear followed by a thorough going-over before stepping out on a 130-nautical mile run across the Gulf. Hopefully, some time toward mid-day Monday, we will get underway and arrive off Anclote Key near Tarpon Springs at mid-morning Tuesday.

According to the Verizon coverage chart, we will have good contact and online service if we anchor off Dog Island instead of heading into Carrabelle for the night.

Stay tuned.